My Life in Sandwiches

My friend's mum, who had a gaggle of children, used to make a stacked sandwich using alternate layers of brown/white bread with different fillings in each layer. This was then sliced vertically, so that you ended up with a stripey sandwich with different fillings. To me this was truly awesome!

Darling dad used to eat peanut butter and lettuce sarnies, I can picture him now. Mum was partial to the occasional banana sarnies.

Slice of baguette, topped by curd cheese, a slice of tomato,liver sausage and a pickled gherkin.
Memories of lunch at the snack bar in Rackhams Birmingham when studying at the a General hospital.

Years ago, when I was being 'wooed' (such an old fashioned word!),
he always made sandwiches for our days out etc. And they never varied.
Always cheese and tomato. I can't see a cheese or tomato sandwich now without thinking back to those heady romantic days.. (or maybe not so romantic in view of the endless cheese and tomato sandwiches!).
He once gave me a tin opener for my birthday. Slight lack of imagination there, I think.

MiniMouse my mother used to make those self same sandwiches and called them "ribbon sandwiches" they were served only on special occasions. Usually it was banana or does anyone remember Sandwich Spread? Though come to think of it she made Mars Bar sandwiches on Veda bread (this is a N Ireland delicacy) my brother loved them!!! Questionable taste

I still make sandwich spread ones and take them to work.

When I was an au pair in France I had to make up bourneville chocolate sandwiches for the children. A combination I had never heard of but was a normal sandwich for children in the area I lived in.

DH still loves a sandwich spread sandwich. One I like is cheese and marmalade.

Thank you for all these lovely memories. I was once addicted to sandwich spread! I am also a fan of the fish finger sandwich. However, a very early memory has been inspired by a golden syrup sandwich - this comes from the age of four or five - we were in the kitchen with mum and somehow there was golden syrup everywhere... My brother and I were hastened to the bathroom to be scrubbed down as we even had syrup in our hair.

Keep the memories coming!

Cheese, pickle and sand
Ham, tomato and sand
Meat or fish spread with sand

Who cared as long as we were on the beach and the sun was shining? (or even in the rain under blankets, umbrellas)

Date sandwiches using blocks of cooking dates. Lovely and sweet.

Anything that involves pickled gherkins is fine by meM

Embarrassed to admit that I'm partial to a crisp sandwich. Cheese and onion preferably. Best eaten alone as a bit crumbly.

Tomato sandwiches conjure up memories as a child, of sitting, eating one under an apple tree in the garden, with my back against the trunk - I can feel it now. It's my 'go-to' summer sandwich, has to be good white bread, butter and a dash of salad cream.
Sky high lettuce sandwiches remind me of my dear old Dad, though nowadays it's likely to be a mix of lambs lettuce and rocket as opposed to lettuce Dad had grown himself.
I think I could live on sandwiches if pushed!

Crisp and apple sandwich.

50 years ago my father used to take date sandwiches to work, cut from the block of cooking dates and wrapped in the wax loaf paper. I hated them.

On a Saturday as children our mother would make a loaf of egg and tomato sandwiches. The tomatoes were skinned and the egg and tomato chopped up finely together with loads of salt and pepper - white bread. It brings back sitting at the open fire with the football results on the t.v.

Sparkygran - I'm another veda fanatic, toasted with melted butter and banana with a slight dash of marmite. (maybe that's not a true sandwich if only one slice)

Egg sandwiches are the best, with a dash of salad cream or mayonnaise, salt and pepper, preferably on really fresh, white bread.

DH was disgusted when I said I liked 'chip butties'.

I wasn't going to post as I have said so many times my dear mum used to love Fry's Turkish Delight sandwiches.

Then I remembered my brother in law likes cold left over curry, rice and prawn flavoured crisps. [ confused]

I like cheese and tomato sannies but the tomato has to have 'soggied' the bread.

My dad used to make us sugar sandwiches for a treat,

Condensed milk sandwiches every time for me. Such a treat as a child I still occasionally have one. Trouble is once I open a tin of condensed milk have to eat the lot from a spoon.!

s for condensed milk sandwiches - that's an immediate memory of Lenny Henry's dread-locked character - was it in TISWAS?

PS: And don;t forget The Perishers comic strip, in which Marlon's 'inch-thick ketchup sandwiches' were considered to be a menace by the other characters, whi usually got splashed...

kitty I remember that my grandma used to make me sugar 'butties'!

I've also remembered the dreaded tongue barm cakes my Nan used to make to eat on the train when we went north to visit relatives. [yeuck]

My grandmother used to make us condensed milk sandwiches, and told us not to tell our mother, who always made sandwiches with beef or cheese and lots of salad in them. To discover that there were jam sandwiches, condensed milk, even sugar sandwiches, was a revelation! As it was that very same grandmother who taught our mother not to fill us up with sweet stuff, but to give us protein and veg, she was being a bit naughty, but I think those were treats that she associated with the war years.

Whereas my mother's idea of a treat during the war years was a banana sandwich, fruit always including a pineapple for my grandmother carted back carefully from wherever by my grandfather, who was in the navy.

Wherever did she get bananas in the war years? The only ones we saw were wax replicas hanging up at the greengrocers.